Monday, January 30, 2006

Free Annotated Ohio Revised Code

Anderson has added annotations, legislative commentary, and more to its free version of the Ohio Revised Code, online. This was a useful service in the past, but it's even better now that you get case citations and cross-references to secondary materials like Ohio Jurisprudence 3d.

The case citations are not cross-linked but the statutes are, so you can jump around the ORC without having to retype your citations. I tested the citation list against the Lexisone free case law search. There are fewer citations (Lexisone brought up 41 cases in the past 2 years citing ORC § 2903.06 while there are far fewer annotated cites for the same time period in Andersons ORC online) but it doesn't diminish the great enhancement the case annotations provide.

Keen eyes will have noted that both the Lexisone free case law cite and Anderson are LexisNexis subsidiaries.

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